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i think that these tragedies should -- shame on us for not using these as opportunities to lookate at ways that we can make our streets and our movie theaters and everywhere that people gather safer. >> ifill: congresswoman schakowsky, dave kopei and mike dimock, thank you all very much. you can watch today's full court appearance by james holmes and the comments made after that by the district attorney on our web site. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour, the penalties for penn state; the campaign challenges for president obama in florida; the battles in syria; and a deadly day in iraq. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama and republican mitt romney returned to campaigning in earnest today for the first time since the colorado shootings. romney spoke to a small business roundtable in irvine, california, and he charged again that the president doesn't understand business. >> i happen to think that for people who have their spent whole livelihood working in government that they sometimes don't appreciate just how hard it
i think that these tragedies should -- shame on us for not using these as opportunities to lookate at ways that we can make our streets and our movie theaters and everywhere that people gather safer. >> ifill: congresswoman schakowsky, dave kopei and mike dimock, thank you all very much. you can watch today's full court appearance by james holmes and the comments made after that by the district attorney on our web site. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour, the penalties for...
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he joins us from the penn state campus. and we thank you both for being with us. mark dent, to you first. how verne the authors of this report that the leaders of the university knew what sandusky was up to as long ago as 1998? >> well, that was the first thing that they really discussed in the report was that these four men, paterno, curley, schultz and spanier had knowledge of it as far back as '98, they have e-mails showing knowledge of it. there's an e-mail reference where curley mentions that he wants joe paterno... joe paterno is anxious to hear about more news regarding this incident. so there's basically no doubt. there's documentation these four men had knowledge of that event even though three of them... paterno, curley, and schultz-- denied knowing about the 1998 incident when they talked to the grand jury last year. >> woodruff: that was going to be my question because that would mean they did not tell the truth to the grand jury. >> absolutely. and obviously curley and schultz are facing charges of perjury already and a failure to report. joe paterno
he joins us from the penn state campus. and we thank you both for being with us. mark dent, to you first. how verne the authors of this report that the leaders of the university knew what sandusky was up to as long ago as 1998? >> well, that was the first thing that they really discussed in the report was that these four men, paterno, curley, schultz and spanier had knowledge of it as far back as '98, they have e-mails showing knowledge of it. there's an e-mail reference where curley...
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he joins us now from the "washington post" newsroom. spencer, welcome. so this investigation of forensics mainly was triggered by flawed hair analysis, is that right? >> that's right, judy. the concern has been building for decades really, that hair and other forensic disciplines have not had the scientific research to i guess validate or underpin their approach n. the case of hair, skeptics have raised the point that it might be subjective, given hair examiner, two different examiners might describe the same hair in different ways, the same examiner might describe it differently at different times. there was no agreement on how many character it had to be alike fothe be a match declared. there was no population studies or statistics to answer the question of how often the hairs of two different people might appear to be the same or how often a given number of characteristics might match. to resolve these questions the f.b.i. has long said that a hair machl only shows that you can exclude two people, my hair might not look like your hair, but it can only
he joins us now from the "washington post" newsroom. spencer, welcome. so this investigation of forensics mainly was triggered by flawed hair analysis, is that right? >> that's right, judy. the concern has been building for decades really, that hair and other forensic disciplines have not had the scientific research to i guess validate or underpin their approach n. the case of hair, skeptics have raised the point that it might be subjective, given hair examiner, two different...
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denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize john adams because of the mini series and sam adams because of a beer. that's just the way it is. the other men, i think if you look at them across their professions, some of them were lawyers, some were doctors. kreiger politicians. a large number made their income from agricultural work, whether that was a large plantation in the south or a small farm. >> these were men who enjoyed a role of prominence, that's how they ended up in the continental congress. some of them started out from humble beginnings. not the majority of them but there ar
denise and joe join us now. and the author thomas jefferson pretty well-known, vice president, minister to france, secretary of state and eventually president. but the other 55, not so much. >> not so much. >> well who were they. if you were to look across the room, who was sitting in that hot summer room in philadelphia? >> the 55, i mean i would say out of the 56 men, the 5 we know are franklin, jefferson and hancock. i think these days other people would say i recognize...
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and they listened to us. and i'm here ten years later, and i've just been at a breakfast meeting, as you were, and listened to the most wonderful speeches. we've come so far. it's become a real bipartisan cause, which i'm very happy to see. and in the case of america, it's... certainly without america, we'd be facing catastrophe. >> ifill: so many nations in africa resisted. >> they resisted for a long time and now south africa has woken up and is doing great things. if south africa becomes a template to where aids is in the subsaharan continent all the other countries will follow suit and michel sidibe spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning saying there was so much hope for africa now that south africa has its house in order. and president'm beck kay said if you have aids you get a shot and it goes away. or it's causeded by poverty. we faced those issues. now the new regime, they really paid attention and when south africa speaks, the whole of africa will listen. >> ifill: you have harsh words in your b
and they listened to us. and i'm here ten years later, and i've just been at a breakfast meeting, as you were, and listened to the most wonderful speeches. we've come so far. it's become a real bipartisan cause, which i'm very happy to see. and in the case of america, it's... certainly without america, we'd be facing catastrophe. >> ifill: so many nations in africa resisted. >> they resisted for a long time and now south africa has woken up and is doing great things. if south africa...